Jim Webb’s Reading List Jim Webb’s Reading List
My colleague Chris Hayes recently hailed Virginia Senator Jim Webb's admirable crusade against the prison-industrial complex. As Webb mulls how to reform America's busted, bloated...
Apr 28, 2009 / Eyal Press
Killer Economics Killer Economics
We don't need a 100-day reckoning to know the score: war, recession, violence in Pakistan and now a global epidemic. The landscape before us is a pretty tense: more than t...
Apr 27, 2009 / Laura Flanders
Tim Geithner’s Sentences Resemble Securitized Assets Tim Geithner’s Sentences Resemble Securitized Assets
The New York Times today has a fantastic profile of Tim Geithner and his thinking. It underlines, through a complex portrait, how urgent it is to replace Geithner with someone whos...
Apr 27, 2009 / Zephyr Teachout
The Gender-Bending Recession The Gender-Bending Recession
Are men opting in--at home? Maybe, but mostly because they have little choice, and they're not altogether happy about it. That was the gist of a story the other day in the New York...
Apr 25, 2009 / Betsy Reed
Another New School Demo (CLARIFIED) Another New School Demo (CLARIFIED)
This dispatch just in from Gabriel Gil Arana, a current Nation intern: In March, the New School let go of 12 part-time/adjunct faculty at Parsons' fine arts department. Today, ove...
Apr 23, 2009 / Richard Kim
Being Black on Earth Day Being Black on Earth Day
There is no doubt that green is the new black. Suburbanites compete to have bigger recycling bins than garbage cans, to grocery shop using canvas bags, and to park hybrid cars in ...
Apr 22, 2009 / Melissa Harris-Perry
It’s Not Torture – Mao Agrees It’s Not Torture – Mao Agrees
As noted in my last post, some conservatives have perused the contents of the newly released torture memos and concluded that they do not, in fact, authorize torture. Today's New ...
Apr 22, 2009 / Eyal Press
Congresswoman Maloney and the JEC Show Hints of Muscle Congresswoman Maloney and the JEC Show Hints of Muscle
Yesterday's hearing at the Joint Economic Committee, convened by Congresswoman Maloney, gave me some hope that Congress might be thinking about taking some leadership in systematic...
Apr 22, 2009 / Zephyr Teachout
Obama Handshake and the Politics of Civility Obama Handshake and the Politics of Civility
Why is it that Barack Obama's handshakes create such a stir? The Obamas fist pump congratulation after the North Carolina primary win sent Barack's candidacy into a bit of a racia...
Apr 21, 2009 / Melissa Harris-Perry
It’s Not Torture, Really! It’s Not Torture, Really!
The ability to deny reality is hardly unique to conservatives. There are some people on the left, for example, who believe Hugo Chavez is a model democrat, and others who remain c...
Apr 21, 2009 / Eyal Press